Russian Rapper Big Baby Tape’s “Gimme The Loot” Is Blowing Up On Genius With A Notorious B.I.G. Sample

He’s heavily influenced by US-based trap music.

Today on Genius, a surprising song sits at No. 1 on the Top Songs chart. It’s not Ariana Grande’s smash hit, “thank u, next,” or Travis Scott’s ever-popular “SICKO MODE,” but a song by Russian rapper Big Baby Tape titled “Gimme the Loot.” The song has earned over 300,000 pageviews since its release on November 16, with traffic largely coming from Google searches in Russia. While it’s not uncommon for foreign language songs to perform well on Genius, “Gimme the Loot” has proven to be exceptionally popular.

Big Baby Tape’s song is built around a sample of The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 track “Gimme the Loot,” using Biggie’s vocals at the beginning and end. The same Biggie track was also sampled by Travis Scott on “SICKO MODE.”

Between Biggie’s vocals, Big Baby Tape drops bars about Gucci Mane, Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho, and Perry the Platypus from the Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb. The latter reference alludes to how someone acts after smoking weed:

После одного бонга ты стал, как Перри Утконос

The song appears on Big Baby Tape’s new album, Dragonborn, which puts his US trap music influences on full display. The album, which is distributed by Warner Music’s Russian arm, is not yet available in the US, and Big Baby Tape’s other songs have failed to garner a significant number of streams stateside. However, an analysis by Genius' tech team indicates that the traffic is legitimate. According to Russian rap outlet Rap.ru the song has earned nearly seven million streams since its release. The article does not specify where the streams came from, although based on rough translations it may be referencing Russian social media network and streaming service VKontakte.